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This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth criminalized.

She was doing a science experiment
She’s being charged as an ADULT
She’s being charged with a FELONY

If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting, housing discrimination, employment discrimination (as if getting a job while black isn’t hard enough), etc. etc.

i can’t believe tumblr user egberts bought tumblr

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There have been no confirmations that the terrorist who committed the shooting had a mental illness.
Blaming mental illness provides a scapegoat for the pro-gun lobbyists.
Blaming mental illness indirectly blames all mentally ill people, the vast majority of whom are nonviolent and never would be violent.
Blaming mental illness for “isolated incidents” and “sudden breakdowns” STILL ALLOWS FOR PEOPLE WHO WILL OR MAY “break down” TO BUY GUNS.
Blaming mental illness means that you’ve already stopped seeing the terrorist as a gun owner and gun user first and foremost, which means you’ve already divorced yourself from seeing this as a human tragedy committed by a violent human.
Mental illness or not, the terrorist was a civilian who was able to purchase a fucking huge gun, legally, in the United States, then walk into a school and murder children. Whether he had a mental illness or not, if he had not been able to purchase the gun, he would not have been able to use it to MURDER CHILDREN.

so fucked up. Now bear with me - this is the Daily Mail so they won’t be the most feminist in covering this, but it is agreed that this is an effed up situation.

The nine-year-old girl who gave birth in Mexico will never have another child after she was sterilized by the doctors who delivered her baby - against her family’s wishes, it was revealed today.

The youngster was given the procedure following the shock delivery without the consent of her own mother.

She has now reported the Zoquipan Hospital in Guadalajara to the local human rights commission which is investigating.

I hope something good comes of this. No one deserves to have their reproductive rights violated - even if they’ve given birth at 9. Unacceptable.

Also kind of surprised this hasn’t been given more attention in the feminist news cycle.